Studies in Islamic historiography : essays in honour of Professor Donald P. Little /
This book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-Ma...
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Language: English
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Leiden Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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Culture and History of the Ancient Near East;
volume104.
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Call Number: BP49
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
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- Sami G. Massoud
- part 1: Classical Historiography
- 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman
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- Michael Wood
- 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate
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- Heather J. Empey
- 3 al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā li-Miṣr. Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work
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- Frédéric Bauden
- 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi's Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts
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- Murat Cem Mengüç
- part 2: Sacred History
- 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān's Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Taʾwīl): the Birth of Jesus
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- Shafique N. Virani
- 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān
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- Derryl N. MacLean
- 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu's Shengzan
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- Hyondo Park
- part 3: Perspectives
- 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo
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- Reem Meshal
- 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean
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- Patricia Risso
- Indices.